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The SURFING HERITAGE FOUNDATION has a great deal on the latest LeRoy Grannis book available to founding members. If you don't know about the SHF, please visit their website and checkout what they're doing...

Here's the message recently received from SHF:

Dear friends of SHF,

From time to time, we will alert you to exclusive opportunities to takeadvantage of special offers and events that are not available to the generalpublic at large. This is one of the small ways we can acknowledge you, ourfaithful group of supporters. We will only do this when we feel it isappropriate and inline with our mission and goals towards preservationand/or education in regards to genre of surf culture.

We are proud to offer you a chance to purchase legendary surf photographerLeRoy Grannis' newest limited edition signed and numbered book, LeRoyGrannis, Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s at the suggested retailprice of $400.00. There are only 1000 copies of this being distributedworldwide with 600 slated for the US and 300 of those have already beenpre-sold! This means there are only 300** available at this time and thebook is not due to launch until March of this year. As a special incentive,if you place your order by Monday, January 23, 2006, we will include a FREESurfing Heritage Foundation t-shirt in your choice of grey or white. This isan $18.00 value plus we will cover the shipping, handling and State tax atno additional charge to you. Here are the details of this exciting butlimited time offer:

At a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it's fitting to look backat the years that brought the sport into the mainstream. One of the keyimage-makers from that period is LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, whobegan photographing the scene in California and Hawaii in the longboard eraof the early 1960s.

This collection, drawn from Grannis' personal archives, showcases animpressive selection of surf photographs-from the bliss of catching theperfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu's famed North Shore.It is in these iconic images that a sport still in its adolescence embodiedthe free-spirited nature of an era-a time before shortboards and celebrityendorsements, when surfing was at its bronzed best.

Again we want to stress, this is a very limited-time offer, this book isanticipated to sell-out quickly but we are able to extend this exclusiveoffer to you due to our long-standing relationship with LeRoy and our mutualsupport of each other's endeavors in the chronicling of our sport, cultureand lifestyle.

This edition is expected to sell out quickly, please call today to reserveyour copy, 949.388.0313. This is your opportunity to own an importantcollector's piece - a nostalgic journey back to surfing's golden age. ThankYou again for your support! Please allow 4-6 weeks after the release date,we will ship your order as soon as they become available.

NPR has done a nice audio newscast on the song "Miserlou" (aka "The Egyptian"), including a short interview with Dick Dale on how his version came about AND several very different versions of the same song: